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A new bill is being introduced called, Camera Phone Predator Alert Act, which would require any mobile phone containing a digital camera to sound a tone whenever a photograph is taken with the camera's phone. It would also prohibit such a phone from being equipped with a means of disabling or silencing the tone. While its a good gesture, I do not believe having such a law would deter criminals from hacking their camera phones to take pictures in inappropriate ways. Also, the real criminals would not even use a camera phone but would probably use other devices such as...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Want to catch a senator napping during a congressional hearing? Or letting a possible racial slur slip out at a campaign rally? Then log on to Internet video-sharing Web sites like YouTube.com -- the latest weapon in U.S. politics where a candidate's missteps can be viewed by hundreds of thousands of people.

A tech-savvy teen who snapped a cellphone picture of a flasher who exposed himself on the subway said she overcame her fear and disgust because she felt a "responsibility" to other vulnerable young riders. ......the resourceful 15-year-old La Guardia HS sophomore told The Post. "I was shocked, then I got disgusted......." The girl, a painter, found herself in a frightening bind - boxed in on one side by her friend, who was busy doing her homework, and the other by a snoozing female rider. Straight ahead was a hulking man dressed in black who repeatedly opened his coat to expose...

Head teachers have banned children from using video phones to stop them slapping other pupils in the face and recording the attacks on their mobiles. The violent new craze among teenagers – dubbed “happy slapping” – has been plaguing commuters on trains and buses in London. Now schools have been forced to take action to stop the violence spreading into playground bullying. London’s Evening Standard reported that teachers at Crofton School in Lewisham, south London, had confiscated mobile phones after pupils were caught recording the attacks. A number of other schools are thought to have taken similar action. A spokesman...

JEDDAH, 3 December 2004 — Female college students carrying mobile phones with cameras on campus in any college in the Kingdom could face a SR500 fine and 3-year suspension under recent regulations issued by the Ministry of Education. “What about the faculty and administration members?” questioned college student Huda Abdulghani. “Are they allowed to carry mobiles with cameras on campus? How come they’re to be trusted and we’re not?” “So my mobile phone has a camera,” said Umm Leila, a college student, married and mother of 3 children. “It’s a gift from my husband and it’s one of the recent...

I recently re-married (my first wife passed away last year from cancer) a gorgeous, wonderful woman from the Philippines. My new mother-in-law, Maybel, is one of the millions of Filipino overseas workers, working at menial jobs so they can take care of their families back home. In Maybel's case, she works at the King Saud University in Riyadh, doing maintenance work. As the sole breadwinner, she does her best to provide for her children, regularly sending money to pay for their care, education and maintenance every month. Maybel has been working such jobs in Saudi Arabia for over twelve years....

Top Saudi cleric bans use of camera phones Such gadgets spread obscenity in Muslim society, he says; edict issued after Saudis disregard ban on sale and import RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's highest religious authority has barred the use of cellphones with built-in cameras, blaming them for 'spreading obscenity'. Cellular shutterbugs in Saudi Arabia now risk fines and jail. This is a final resort after a ban on their sale and import in the kingdom failed to dent their popularity. Camera-equipped phones are wildly popular throughout the Middle East, particularly in oil-rich Gulf countries, but there has been concern that they...

PALM BEACH - In Palm Beach County Florida, public school campuses are about to pass a "ban" on camera phones on school property. Students found with the camera phones could be suspended from extraciurricular activities, face an in-school suspension or other in-school intervention program. "They're causing a lot of problems," said board member Mark Hansen, "We really need to take action to make sure these are prohibited." Superintendent Art Johnson agrees. "The issue is communication - I could literally be taking a test, take apicture of it and send it to someone and someone could text me back the information."

Sandy Berger Times Two by Sandy Berger Last week I started getting some unusual e-mail with questions about cell phones cameras. My e-mail also included an abnormal number of politically oriented questions. After further investigation, it turns out that all of this was related to a recent political event. It seems that Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton's national security adviser, was recently forced to quit his job as John Kerry’s adviser. He is now under federal investigation for taking notes and classified documents from the National Archives. Berger was recently at the National Archives reading through highly classified terrorism documents related...

DAMMAM, 30 May 2004 — A cell phone with a camera was responsible for ending a marriage in Dammam, Al-Youm reported. The groom tried to make sure that no cameras were brought into the wedding hall; he hired women guards to search each guest before she entered the hall. One girl, however, managed to sneak a phone in and she took pictures of the bride and groom without either knowing. An old lady realized the girl was taking pictures and snatched the camera. When the groom learned about the incident, he was very angry and when he discovered that the...

Did Donald Rumsfeld ban camera phones for soldiers in Iraq? The story has appeared on the wires, and says he did. But while there are doubts about whether the story is true, there should be bigger doubts about whether it is even possible. The abiding image of censorship of letters from the Great War of 1914-1918 is of petty bureaucrats cutting holes in innocent missives sent from the front line. One assumes that something similar happens to troops today. It seems, one might be wrong in that assumption. As Peter Rojas points out in Engadget, it was not actually a...

Rumsfeld bans camera phones in Iraq: report Sun May 23, 7:17 AM ET Add Technology - AFP to My Yahoo! LONDON (AFP) - Cellphones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army installations in Iraq (news - web sites) on orders from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a business newspaper reported. Missed Tech Tuesday? Europe and Japan get all the hot new technology first. Here's a look at the pipeline of future tech -- plus some gadgets that didn't travel well and a wishlist of cool things. Quoting a Pentagon (news - web sites) source, The Business newspaper said...

MOBILE phones fitted with digital cameras have been banned in US army installations in Iraq on orders from Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, The Business newspaper reported today. Quoting a Pentagon source, the paper said the US Defence Department believes that some of the damning photos of US soldiers abusing Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad were taken with camera phones. "Digital cameras, camcorders and cellphones with cameras have been prohibited in military compounds in Iraq," it said, adding that a "total ban throughout the US military" is in the works. Disturbing new photos of Iraqi prisoner abuse, which the...

JEDDAH, 4 April 2004 — Legal or not, mobile phones with cameras are alive and well in the Kingdom. They are openly on sale in phone souks and freely available over the counter in branded stores. To add to the confusion, the technically illegal Samsung E 700 is even advertised on a main thoroughfare in Jeddah. The authorities are reacting. Al-Yaum Arabic daily recently reported that a college student was expelled in the Eastern Province for taking pictures of her friends with her mobile phone camera on campus and distributing them via the Internet. Parents complained to the college administration...

A product now in testing could automatically switch off camera phones to protect industrial secrets and private areas. Iceberg Systems is beta-testing Safe Haven, which combines hardware transmitters with a small piece of control software loaded into a camera phone handset. When the handset is taken into a room or building containing the Safe Haven hardware, the phone is instructed to deactivate the imaging systems. The systems are reactivated when the handset is out of range. Analysts have predicted that there will be almost 1 billion camera phones in use within five years, which has led companies such as Samsung...

<p>Prime time airwaves have been awash with images of subprime modern behavior: First came the snapshots of the Iowa State men's basketball coach downing beers at a fraternity party, next was the grainy video of a girls' football game at Chicago's Glenbrook North High School degrading into feces-hurling hazing.</p>